Further Russian repression - transsexuals prohibited from driving.

Ostensibly as part of it's attempt to reduce road deaths (hint: less booze and speeding, better roads and honest cops) Putin's Russia has banned those suffering from "medical deviations" from obtaining driving licenses. Such "deviations" include transgender people, asexuals, transvestites as well as those who engage in voyeurism, fetishism and exhibitionism. And "pathological" gamblers.

Interestingly those with drug or alcohol problems don't seem to make the list.



Yet more homphobic and transphobic bogotry in Russia, though I'm sure the usual suspects will be along to defend this crap soon enough.



Link.

Also BBC.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1wCDsTG